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Taro Hirose of the Detroit Red Wings versus the Buffalo Sabres Victor Olofsson, during their game on March 27 at the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, N.Y. Photo credits: Dr. Jonathan Eto.
With his idle time, he thought it would be funny to draft a fictitious player and enlisted the help of Sabres’...

Portrait of Frankie Laine, Paramount Theater, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948. William P. Gottlieb/Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Fund Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.
Sorry that my column was not in the April issue. I was a bit under the weather and not up to producing it.
I...

The new Canada Post Vancouver Asahi stamp booklet. The pack of 10 stamps comes in a booklet on top of a map of Vancouver's Powell Street area and an Asahi game ticket. Photo credit: Canada Post.
Canada Post has released a new stamp that honours the Vancouver Asahi, the Japanese Canadian baseball...

Caitlin Tomotsugu, 17, looks ahead to a promising baseball career. Photo credit: Mel Tsuji.
That in itself is impressive. But with Tomotsugu there’s more. She’s an excellent student, with mostly straight A's in all subjects; she’s already been accepted by three universities for the next...

Japanese Canadians arriving in Kaslo on May 13, 1942 aboard the SS Nasookin. Photo courtesy: Kumano Family Collection/Nikkei National Museum.
Of the 22,000, approximately 1,100 Japanese Canadians were interned in Kaslo, B.C. Kaslo was a ghost town and home to less than 500 residents before the Japanese...

George Takei and Daniel Enjo, VJLS-JH Community Relations Committee. Photo credits: VJLS-JH.
The second season takes place in a Japanese American internment camp, and Takei is both an actor and consultant on set. As a survivor of Japanese American internment as a young boy, Takei is an advocate...

Soufflé pancakes from Fuwa Fuwa Pancakes have become a new popular brunch staple. Matcha and red bean pancakes, ($13.90). Photo credits: @nomsisters/instagram
Pastry chef Yuka Naka from Osaka, Japan, opened the first Fuwa Fuwa with owner Benson Lau in the trendy Annex area. Due to popularity,...

With ramen bars popping up all over the city, Raku offers a fresh take on a bowl of noodles. Tantan udon, ($15). Photo credits: @nomsisters
Created by famous New York-based executive chef Norihiro Ishizuka, Raku’s Toronto location opened its doors at the end of March 2019.
Raku Toronto is fittingly...

An example of this is Daigo Yamashita and his band, Johnny and the Pandora, embody the American Rockabilly culture of the 1950s, like Elvis or Johnny Cash but with a Japanese flare. The band have been working hard to spread their Japanese 50s Rockabilly craze overseas, as well as Japanese biru (beer).
With...